Monday, December 19 2005 15:20 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Mumbai: India's benchmark stock market index today (Dec 19, 2005) set another record, when it scaled over 9,400 points level during intra-day trading on the Bombay Stock Exchange on aggressive buying by funds and general investors in select blue-chip stocks.

The BSE's 30-share Sensex recorded a gain of 116.23 points at 9,400.69 points, a level never seen before, even as another key index, the National Stock Exchange's Nifty, gained 35.80 points at 2,845.95 at midday.

The aggressive buying support today helped the indices surpass previous record highs of 9,309.01 points (Sensex) on the BSE and 2,825.65 (Nifty) on the NSE recorded on December 14.

The buying was wide-spread in shares like Housing Development Finance Corporation, State Bank of India, HDFC Bank, ACC, Gujarat Ambuja Cement, ITC, Hind Lever, Reliance Ind., Reliance Capital, Infosys, Satyam Computers and Wipro.

Some of the pivotals were at their highest price as general investors were more keen to buy stocks of banks, finance and cement companies.